In 1976, suicides in the 15-24 year-old group (N=4,747) made up over 17% of all suicides in all age groups (N=26,750). In 1968, adolescent suicides (N=2,591) were only 12% of the total (N=21,000). Adolescent suicide rate is alarming unless put into perspective with the accident rate and the cultural belief in individual rights, responsibility, and…

DEFINING AND DESCRIBING GOOD TEACHING AND THE PROCESS BY WHICH IT CAN BE DETERMINED WITH RELIABILITY WERE THE GOALS OF THIS STUDY. CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD TEACHERS WERE DIFFERENTIATED, TEACHING ACTS OF GOOD TEACHERS WERE DEFINED, AND AN OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF GOOD TEACHING WAS DEVELOPED. AS A RESULT OF THE STUDY, A MODEL FOR GOOD TEACHING WAS…

TO TEST THE EFFECTS OF SENSITIVITY TRAINING ON STUDENTS, RANDOMLY-SELECTED 12TH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN A T-GROUP FOR THE FIRST THREE WEEKS OF THE FALL 1966 SEMESTER. ANOTHER GROUP, TAUGHT BY THE SAME TEACHER, WAS NOT EXPOSED TO SENSITIVITY TRAINING, WHILE A SECOND CONTROL GROUP WAS TAUGHT BY A TEACHER WITHOUT T-GROUP…

THE APPLICATION OF GROUP COUNSELING WAS INVESTIGATED WITH RESPECT TO ITS EFFECT ON UNDERACHIEVING, ACTING-OUT, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BOYS. IN ADDITION, TWO OTHER EFFECTS WERE STUDIED--(1) THAT OF INVOLVING TEACHERS IN DISCUSSION GROUPS AND (2) THAT OF THESE DISCUSSIONS GROUPS ON TEACHER ATTITUDES. THREE COUNSELORS FROM DIFFERENT SCHOOLS IN SIMILAR…

THE EXTENT TO WHICH A PLANNED PROGRAM OF READING COULD SIGNIFICANTLY INFLUENCE THE BEHAVIOR OF A SELECTED GROUP OF ADOLESCENTS WAS STUDIED. EFFORTS WERE MADE TO DESIGN THE STUDY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE INVESTIGATORS COULD DETERMINE WHETHER SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES EXISTED IN THE AREAS OF PERSONALITY, PERSONAL PROBLEMS, ACHIEVEMENT, ATTENDANCE, AND…

This manual is designed to aid observers in the classroom in the use of an observation form entitled "The Student-Level Observation of Beginning Reading," which focuses on the content of instructional activities in reading at the individual student level. Instructions are provided on how to identify a set of behaviors such as direct and indirect…

Alcohol use among 458 members of Greek fraternities and sororities at the University of North Dakota was surveyed. The survey instrument, which was an adaptation of a questionnaire developed by Michael A. Looney, was directed to frequency of use, amounts consumed, type of beverage, attitudes, and demographic information. It was found that…

This paper reports the results of a study which examined the relationships of level and stability of self esteem to perceptual, behavioral, and motivational aspects of academic behavior among second grade students. These aspects are academic achievement, accuracy in assessing standing, and disruptive behavior. Self-esteem was assessed with the…

This study investigated the possibility of identifying groups of basic educational attitudes of preservice elementary education majors who had few field experiences prior to their taking upper level education courses. The attitudes investigated pertained to beliefs about classroom management, student trust, and teacher discipline. Through factor…

This study examines and supports the hypothesis that diverse student behavior can be meaningfully and usefully construed when viewed from the single perspective described here as hedonism vs. the Protestant Ethic. Subjects were 1375 male and female undergraduate students. Anonymous questionnaires dealing with background, academic life, social and…

From infancy on the child is surrounded with sex-based role expectations. The school system clarifies and reinforces these images through the male dominated administrative structure, the unbalanced distribution of attention in primary classroom situations, and the mainstreaming of males and females into gender-tagged curriculum programs. Sexism is…

The relationship between student brinkmanship, defined as an assertive student behavior which attempts to challenge school authority while avoiding negative sanctions, and classroom social structure in five secondary school classrooms was investigated through a field study. Subjects were 185 students in a small rural high school in Georgia.…

This 20-page booklet contains very brief, anonymous and anecdotal stories about teachers' success with young children in the early childhood education programs in Dayton, Ohio. The teachers' stories focus on individual children and reveal the scope of classroom problems faced every year. Five anecdotes illustrate problems of children with…

The described teacher inservice education program is designed for elementary school teachers and administrators who are interested in child development in relation to individually guided education. The scope and sequencing of topics in the program are outlined, and the activities and resources involved are described. Ordering information for…

A pilot project, conducted by California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, for the California State University and Colleges, investigated the value of the System of Interactive Guidance and Information (SIGI) as a career planning tool, and assessed its impact on the university's instructional timesharing computer from November 1977 to December…